The White House has introduced a new feature on its official website that compiles and publicly denounces news organizations and reporters it claims have misrepresented events or presidential statements, marking a sharp escalation in the administration's confrontational approach toward the press.

The newly launched section opens with the headline "Misleading. Biased. Exposed." and identifies several outlets as "media offenders of the week", including the Boston Globe, CBS News, and The Independent. The accusations focus on their reporting of President Trump's response to a video released by six Democratic lawmakers urging military personnel not to follow unlawful commands.

The controversy intensified after Trump took to social media, accusing the lawmakers of "seditious behavior, punishable by death" and sharing a post containing the phrase "hang them."

Media blacklist

According to the White House webpage, "The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members. Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable."

Beyond the weekly picks, the page hosts an expanding "Offender Hall of Shame" featuring the Washington Post, CNN, CBS News, and MSNBC (now MS Now). Users can browse a searchable database of tagged articles and the journalists who authored them, grouped under labels such as "bias," "malpractice," and "left wing lunacy." A ranking on the page currently places the Washington Post at the top of the list, followed by MSNBC and CBS News.

🚨🇺🇸 TRUMP WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES "OFFENDER HALL OF SHAME" TO EXPOSE FAKE NEWS IN REAL TIME

The White House just went nuclear on legacy media.

The Trump administration has unveiled a new section on WhiteHouseGov dedicated to cataloging and exposing false, misleading, and biased… pic.twitter.com/ho4pHfn85A

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 28, 2025

Among the articles singled out is a recent Washington Post report describing an internal Coast Guard policy shift that briefly removed swastikas and nooses from a list of hate symbols, an action the service reversed after publication. The paper noted the reversal in follow-up coverage and, in reporting on the new White House tracker, quoted an internal spokesperson saying: "The Washington Post is proud of its accurate, rigorous journalism."

The list of organizations accused of bias stretches far beyond the weekly "offenders," sweeping in major outlets such as the Associated Press, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Axios.

Press wars

The creation of this government-run accountability page adds to a long string of clashes between the president and the press. In recent years, Trump has pursued lawsuits against the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, reached legal settlements with ABC and CBS, and repeatedly labeled mainstream outlets as the "enemy of the people."

Recently, the US president has also stepped up personal attacks aimed at individual female reporters. Earlier this month, during an exchange aboard Air Force One, he referred to a Bloomberg journalist as a "piggy." Days later, after being questioned by an ABC News correspondent about Saudi Arabia's killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the Epstein files, he fired back by calling her a "terrible person."

Last week, he derided a New York Times reporter in a Truth Social post, describing her as "a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out."

The message behind quiet, piggy was not subtle. It was a proclamation. I decide who speaks. I decide what truth is. I decide whose pain persists and whose gets erased. I decide what women are allowed to ask me. I decide which crimes survive and which get swallowed in smoke.… pic.twitter.com/wp8LEdFCsP

— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) November 18, 2025

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